Word: harshe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Lance faced the Senate committee last week, it seemed briefly that he might receive a harsh grilling on most of those topics. Said Delaware Republican William Roth Jr.: "What bothers me is that the agreement [Lance's sale promise] was announced with great fanfare, but when the going gets rough, there's a request for an extension." Republican Charles Percy asked whether Lance's pronouncements on bank prime rates involved the "appearance of possible conflict of interest" and attempted to bore in further. But Georgia's Sam Nunn interjected: "How far can you extend this...
Islamic law is based on the Koran and Muhammad's teachings as well as on clarifications made by later scholars. The law differs from country to country, depending on which of the four major schools of interpretation (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafei and Hanbali) is followed. Islamic justice can be harsh in an eye-for-an-eye manner. Judges tend to opt for severity rather than leniency if there is any doubt. An American couple in Saudi Arabia caught their Pakistani houseboy stealing one day and ordered him to report to the police. They were astonished when he returned home minus...
...inherent banalities. Those who deserve the largest share of the credit are Director Johnson, a solid pro who has done good work on the action circuit, and his three leading players. Johnson has a sure hand with the sports stuff; his games and practices are hard-charging and harsh-breathing. They provide an energetic contrast to the romantic sequences, which do not go mushy, and the didactic ones, which a sound sense of irony prevents from going preachy...
...notice posted at Italy's stately Park Avenue consulate general in New York was harsh: "Owing to the saturation of Italian universities, the Italian authorities have decided to suspend all enrollments of foreign citizens for the academic years 1977-78 and 1978-79." Similarly blunt notices appeared at Italian consulates worldwide. The announcement two weeks ago set off a barrage of angry, incredulous calls from parents of many of the 10,000 or so students, in nearly 100 countries, who are studying Italian in order to enter one of Italy's universities this fall...
...often taken as a denial of American newness. as a manifesto of eclecticism. Other artists dissimulated their debts to French painting or let critics bury them. Not Motherwell. Thus he was much abused as a mock European, all taste and private income-a Dick Diver, not attuned to the harsh and epic voice of the American pictorial myth...